:: The Acid Test ::

Last night's bAsTaRd was a tubthumping whooper of a night out, although Tigger and I had to retire to our beds at a reasonable hour. Not many of the usual crowd were in attendance (La Grib was singing her heart out in the rehearsal room and it was a pity to miss Barba-Rei), but I'm afraid the absentees missed a treat. A video presentation from Eclectic Method, Video MishMashSluts Supreme and saviours/scourge of pop video culture. This was a full-on assault of the senses, far more than a simple visualisation of the beloved bootleg genre. Employing the pop videos of artists as diverse as The Coral, N*E*R*D and bootleggers' favourite Missy Elliot, these VJs wove a web of silky audio-visual deceit for over 30 minutes. They managed to incorporate spliced news footage apparently imploring the viewer to take part in the biggest ever national trial of LSD and classic clips from video bootleg pioneers (and founders of bAsTaRd), Cartel Communiqué. For most of the flabbergasted onlookers there was only one difficult decision - was it worth risking taking your eyes of the screen for a moment to succumb to the beat and shake that booty? Wideboy was unlucky enough to arrive just after the fun was over, a perfectly fitting punishment for the fact that he'd just come from the première of Kill Bill...

And now for a b3tan take on the most irritating poster campaign of the past few years, Love is...

Just because it's Friday, I'm going to spoil you with Ananova's finest so you don't have to trawl their sight for juicy bits. Here are some Thai religious freaks, who get pierced on a regular basis. And who could fail to be amused by the tale of the elderly Dutch farmers' wives who watched a porn film "by mistake". I just wonder what my granny would have made of it.

That's it for another week. I shall soon depart this dull sweatshop for a pub, where we shall be rehearsing my play. Honest!